Publications

Selected publications.

2026

  1. Chengxuan Li, Timur Dogan

    Exploration of the fidelity ladder for attic and basement representation in 5R1C Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs)

    2026 · Submitted

  2. Chengxuan Li, Timur Dogan

    Lost in aggregation? Guidance on functional geometric fidelity in Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs)

    2026 · Submitted

  3. Chengxuan Li, Timur Dogan

    Scalable smart-meter Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) calibration: a physics-supervised amortized inverse surrogate learning framework

    2026 · Submitted

  4. Chengxuan Li, Timur Dogan

    Sequential coordination of precomputed Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) responses enables scalable feeder-level flexibility assessment

    2026 · Submitted

  5. Chengxuan Li, Zihan Jimmy Wang, Timur Dogan

    ShadingZip: Within-Building Selective Computation of Shading Profiles for Urban Building Energy Models

    ASIM 2026 · Accepted

  6. Chengxuan Li, Timur Dogan

    Calendars of the City: Deterministic Schedule Libraries to Enhance UBEM Load Duration Forecasts

    IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2026

2025

  1. Chengxuan Li, Timur Dogan

    Deriving high-fidelity residential building archetypes and typical usage patterns from national energy use surveys to enhance "initial guesses" for Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) inputs

    Building Simulation 2025, 19th Conference of IBPSA

  2. Timur Dogan, Chengxuan Li, Hung Ming Tseng, Amber Jiayu Su, Patrick Kastner

    A Bottom-Up Urban Building Energy Model for Evaluating Thermal Load Electrification Measures

    Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2025

    Published online July 2025; in print in volume 19, issue 2 (2026), pages 289–316.

  3. Hang Xu, Chengxuan Li, Patrick Kastner, Timur Dogan

    Understanding Urban Building Energy Consumption with Explainable Machine Learning Approaches

    CAAD Futures 2025